NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Computer scientists at Rutgers University have shown how a familiar type of personal computer security
The researchers, who are presenting their findings at a mobile computing workshop this week in Maryland, demonstrated how such a software attack could cause a smart phone to eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless. These actions could happen without the owner being aware of what happened or what caused them.
“Smart phones are essentially becoming regular computers,” said Vinod Ganapathy, assistant professor of computer science in Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences. “They run the same class of operating systems as desktop and laptop computers, so they are just as vulnerable to attack by malicious software, or ‘malware.’”
Smart phones are cellular telephones that also offer Internet accessibility, texting and e-mail capabilities and a variety of programs commonly called “apps,” or applications.
Ganapathy and computer science professor Liviu Iftode worked with three students to study a nefarious type of malware known as “rootkits.” Unlike viruses, rootkits attack the heart of a computer’s software – its operating system. They can only be detected from outside a corrupted operating system with a specialized tool known as a virtual machine monitor, which can examine every system operation and data structure.
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